Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bao, Yukai
• Wang, Ruoxing
• Lu, Yunmei
• Wu, Wenzhuo

Titel

Lignin biopolymer based triboelectric nanogenerators

Ist Teil von

• APL materials, 2017-07, Vol.5 (7), p.074109-074109-7

Ort / Verlag

AIP Publishing LLC

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Ongoing research in triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) focuses on increasing power generation, but obstacles concerning economical and eco-friendly utilization of TENGs continue to prevail. Being the second most abundant biopolymer on earth, lignin offers a valuable opportunity for low-cost TENG applications in biomedical devices, benefitting from its biodegradability and biocompatibility. Here, we develop for the first time a lignin biopolymer based TENGs for harvesting mechanical energy in the environment, which shows great potential for self-powered biomedical devices among other applications and opens doors to new technologies that utilize otherwise wasted materials for economically feasible and ecologically friendly production of energy devices.